Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Afghanistan the same day the Afghan minister of defense quit. The visit also comes three days after Afghan Defense Forces suffered their biggest single day loss of life in the entire war. Afghan Minister of Defense Abdullah Habibi resigned Monday along with chief of staff of the Afghan […]
Mattis Pops into Afghanistan, Afghan Defense Minister Up and Resigns…
U.S. Sends Dozens of Troops to Somalia, First Time in Decades…
The U.S. military is sending dozens of regular troops to Somalia in the largest such deployment to the Horn of Africa country in roughly two decades. The United States pulled out of Somalia after 1993, when two helicopters were shot down in the capital, Mogadishu, and bodies of Americans were dragged through the streets. The […]
Dereliction of Duty, Redux by Scott Ritter (Outstanding Read)…
During the night of April 6, Trump ordered a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against targets located in and around the Syrian air base of Shayrat. The cruise missile attack was in response to allegations of a chemical weapons attack by a Syrian […]
That Was Fast: Signer of Anti-Trump Letter Withdraws from Pentagon Think Tank…
Patrick Cronin, a liberal Republican China hand who signed a letter denouncing President Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, on Friday withdrew from taking a plum position as director of a Pentagon-funded think tank in Hawaii.
U.S. Carrier Starts ‘Routine’ Patrols in South China Sea…
The United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to the disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday as part of maritime “routine operations.” Sailing with the 97,000-ton Vinson is the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer, the Navy said in a statement. The Vinson carries a flight group of more than […]
U.S. Patience ‘Won’t Endure Forever’: First Mattis Now Pence Tells NATO to Spend More or Else…
The US is committed to partnership with NATO and the EU, but expects its allies to live up to the promise of paying for their own defense by the end of 2017, Vice President Mike Pence said during a visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels. During his visit to Brussels, Secretary of Defense James […]
REPORT: Defense Expenditures of NATO Countries (2009 – 2016)…
Mattis Signals No Quick Changes to U.S.-Russia Ties…
The Trump administration signaled Thursday there will be no change soon in U.S.-Russian relations, putting the onus on Moscow to prove itself if it wants closer cooperation with Washington. Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists was underscored as a test case of its willingness to change behavior. At a NATO meeting in Brussels, U.S. Defense Secretary […]
Mattis: NATO Allies Must Increase Spending or U.S. Will ‘Moderate Its Commitment’…
US Defense Secretary James Mattis delivered an ultimatum to NATO allies during a visit to Europe – increase their military spending, or see America “moderate its commitment” to the alliance. “I owe it to you all to give you clarity on the political reality in the United States, and to state the fair demand from […]
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